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Ah, the classic "goose/geese vs. moose/meese" conundrum — love it!
So here’s the deal:
"Goose" and "geese" follow an old pattern from Old English where certain vowels changed in the plural. It's called i-mutation or umlaut — that's how we got:
man → men
tooth → teeth
goose → geese
BUT... "moose" is a whole different beast — linguistically and literally.
👉 "Moose" comes from Eastern Algonquian languages (like Abenaki), not from Old English. So when it was adopted into English in the early 1600s, it didn’t bring any of those vowel-shifting plural rules with it. It just followed the more modern, regular pattern of not changing in plural.
So:
One moose, two moose (just like one deer, two deer)
Bottom line: different origin, different rules — no meese running through the forest (unless you're joking around, in which case, 100% yes: look at all them meese! 😄)
Want to hear some other weird plurals like this?
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